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Past the brushed marble and up 20-some stories in Trump Tower, tucked in from the arctic air chilling Midtown Manhattan, Ivanka Trump, soon-to-be First Daughter, welcomed Rania Al Abdullah, reigning queen of Jordan, into her office.

At midday, the two met to speak about issues related to women around the world, according to a source familiar with the meeting, a slate Ivanka has offered that she will focus on once her father takes office later this month.

This is the latest in a series of high-profile meetings Ivanka has taken since her father won the election in November. She’s held Trump Tower meetings with Al Gore, Leonardo DiCaprio, and a brief chat with Elon Musk on climate change; she sat in on a meeting between her father and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe; and had dinner last month in her family’s brand-new hotel, blocks from the White House, with her husband, Jared Kushner, her father’s nominee for transportation secretary, Elaine Chao, and Chao’s husband, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. The New York Times reported that when Nancy Pelosi brought up issues related to women on a call with Donald, he promptly handed the phone to his daughter.

Throughout the campaign, Ivanka served as one of her father’s most successful surrogates, providing a measured voice and a moderating influence to a campaign that was sorely lacking in both. It was Ivanka who introduced him when he announced his candidacy and Ivanka who introduced him again on stage at the Republican National Convention to accept his party’s nomination.

Much of that speech focused on what a President Trump would do to support women and working families. “As a mother myself, of three young children, I know how hard it is to work while raising a family, and I also know that I’m far more fortunate than most,” she said onstage, in a salmon shift dress fashioned by her eponymous fashion line. “[My father] will fight for equal pay for equal work, and I will fight for this too, right along side of him.”

It was an odd through-line to make at the apex of a political campaign dogged by criticism of Trump’s treatment of women. But it is one that’s very much in line with Ivanka Trump’s brand. In September, she appeared in an ad, called “Motherhood,” in which she detailed specific labor laws her father would enact that will “allow women to support their families and further their careers.” She introduced him at a rally in suburban Philadelphia at which her father detailed tax cuts for working families and maternity-leave policies that he would put in place. It also is the same message she will be selling in her forthcoming book, Women Who Work, once it hits shelves in March.

After her father’s victory, it became clear that Ivanka was less interested in selling shift dresses and matching pumps to women from her New York–based office than she was in heading to Washington to focus on policies that will impact the ways in which they work.

Ivanka has not yet confirmed that she will move to D.C. or that she will step away from her roles at the Trump Organization and the brand. She has reportedly found a house around the corner from the Obama’s post–White House home and will leave the family business and appoint a new executive to run the day-to-day operations of her business. (Both Ivanka and Kushner are set to make their positions within their own businesses clearer next week.) Last month, The New York Times reported that she plans to lobby members of Congress with the lobbying firm Main Street Partnership to expand child care. This week, Politico noted that she’s been leaning on Goldman Sachs partner Dina Powell, a staunch advocate for women’s-empowerment issues who runs the investment bank’s “10,000 Women” initiative, which helps female entrepreneurs globally.

The work seems to have the full blessing of her father and his top officials, paving the way for her to have the kind of authority and domain over these issues that she decides to take on. “If you look at Ivanka, she’s so strong to the women’s issue and child care, and so many things she’d be so good,” Donald told Fox News’s Chris Wallace in an interview at the end of last year, explaining how he sees his daughter fitting into his inner circle in Washington. Kellyanne Conway, who will be Trump’s counselor in the White House__, told the hosts on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, “She’s in a position where she can actually leverage that and make a difference for women in the economy.”

The meeting with Queen Rania on Wednesday cements a different sort of standing for Ivanka. As the honorary chair of the United Nation’s Girl’s Education Initiative, an outspoken advocate for women refugees in Syria, and founder of an N.G.O. that helps families and children in poverty (not to mention a former banker and current fashion icon with 5.88 million Twitter followers), Queen Rania is the international model for the kind of outspoken advocate that Ivanka Trump aspires to be.

Queen Rania is also the sort of person who, until Trump won the election in November, was not likely to have taken a midday meeting with Donald Trump. That she visited Trump Tower on a frigid day in New York speaks to the kind of global field on which Ivanka seeks to play—and players with whom she hopes to engage. Much of this, of course, has to do with the fact that her father will take office in two weeks. That grants her a level of power and prestige that she, on her own, would not have at her disposal.

It is often the case that a parent paves the way for a child to be a more successful, and a more polished version of themselves (though it’s hard to imagine Donald viewing anyone else that way, even his children). As president-elect, he will soon hold the highest office in the world. Ivanka, as a result, has a chance to operate on an elite, global level without winning a single vote, and without half the country and most of the media against her. The apple did not fall far from the tree, but it fell in a far more rarified place.

A ringletted, towheaded, toddler Tiffany Trump drew both of her parents’ attention in New York City.

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Ivanka with her father at the Plaza hotel, 1991.

Photo: BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE.

Ivanka with Donald at a Beach Boys concert in Palm Beach, 1996.

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A six-year-old Tiffany Trump, with a cherry-red flamenco dress and gold fan, stood for a portrait at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in 1999.

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Donald and Ivanka at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, 2016.

Photo: BY SUZANNE KREITER/THE BOSTON GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES.

Ivanka Trump and Tiffany trade whispers across their sister-in-law, Lara, in the audience at the Republican National Convention this summer in Cleveland.

Photo: Photograph by Justin Bishop.

Tiffany Trump and Ivanka Trump outside the main doors of Donald Trump’s penthouse at Trump Tower, in Manhattan, 2014.

A ringletted, towheaded, toddler Tiffany Trump drew both of her parents’ attention in New York City.

By Catherine McGann/Getty Images.

Ivanka with her father at the Plaza hotel, 1991.

BY RON GALELLA/WIREIMAGE.

Ivanka with Donald at a Beach Boys concert in Palm Beach, 1996.

FROM DAVIDOFF STUDIOS/GETTY IMAGES.

A six-year-old Tiffany Trump, with a cherry-red flamenco dress and gold fan, stood for a portrait at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach in 1999.

by Davidoff Studios/Getty Images.

Ivanka Trump, in a Canadian Tuxedo, spent Christmastime in Aspen with her father in 1990, where the two celebrated designer Dennis Bassos’s fur collection at the Little Nell.

From Getty Images.

A velvet-clad Ivanka Trump and her mother, Ivana, were all smiles on the Studio 54 dance floor.

by Ron Galella/WireImage.

The color-coordinated two sisters celebrate the season finale of their father’s hit reality show, The Apprentice.

By by Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic.

Tiffany on the runway during New York Fashion Week, 2016.

BY JACOPO RAULE/GETTY IMAGES.

Ivanka Trump joined her father and his then-girlfriend (and later, third wife), Melania, at the Met Ball in 2004. The annual gala’s theme that year: “Dangerous Liaisons.”

by Evan Agostini/Getty Images.

Tiffany Trump, her nearly invisible dress, and a friend posed for a selfie last summer at a benefit in the Hamptons.

From IZZY/WENN.com

Ivanka Trump gives her husband, Jared Kushner, a little squeeze after the White House Correspondence Dinner in 2012, four years before the couple set its sights on Washington.

Photograph by Justin Bishop.

After her father clinched the win for the presidency on Nov. 8, Tiffany Trump gave her father a kiss on stage at the New York Hilton.

By SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images.

Donald Trump patted his daughter’s baby bump at his victory rally in South Carolina, after he won the Republican primary in the state in February. Ivanka gave birth to her third child, Theodore, a month later.

By JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images.

Donald and Ivanka at a campaign rally in Manchester, New Hampshire, 2016.

BY SUZANNE KREITER/THE BOSTON GLOBE/GETTY IMAGES.

Ivanka Trump and Tiffany trade whispers across their sister-in-law, Lara, in the audience at the Republican National Convention this summer in Cleveland.

Photograph by Justin Bishop.

Tiffany Trump and Ivanka Trump outside the main doors of Donald Trump’s penthouse at Trump Tower, in Manhattan, 2014.